Hi, I'm Harold
Fullstack Engineer (Backend-focused)

Hey, I'm Tuan - you can call me Harold. I'm obsessed with large-scale systems, and I love turning a messy idea into something that's fast, secure, and built to scale.

About me

Fullstack Engineer (Backend-focused)

Backend-focused fullstack engineer with 7 years building production systems. Currently building an advertising platform in Go on AWS (authorization and bidding). Previously owned the notification service at NAVER (Kafka fan-out, 10M MAU, spikes of 1-2M users) and an internal RAG assistant.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

What I've achieved

Numbers from the systems I have built and run

7+

Years in production

Backend-focused, across the stack.

10M

MAU notification service

Kafka fan-out, spikes of 1-2M users.

5B

Ad requests in 3 months

Ad serving and bidding engine in Go.

200GB+

MySQL / PostgreSQL tuned

Zero-downtime schema changes.

Experience

Seven years of shipping backend-heavy products, newest first

  1. VinSmartFuture

    Mar 2026 - Now

    Fullstack Engineer (Backend-focused) · HCMC, VN

    • Advertising Platform. Building an advertising platform for advertisers and publishers on a lean team (4 BE, 2 FE). Own the authorization and bidding services and ship across the stack, from requirements to deployment and data migration.
    • Ad Serving & Bidding. Built the ad-serving and bidding engine for CPC and CPD campaigns with a linear-regression bid model. Handled about 5 billion ad requests in the first 3 months.
    • Authorization (OpenFGA). Designed the permission model: partner-scoped access for advertisers down to near row-level checks, using OpenFGA + RBAC.
    • Reporting Performance. Cut reporting latency with multi-layer Redis caching, materialized views and historical backfill on PostgreSQL/Aurora, ClickHouse, BigQuery and Airflow.
    GoIrisAWSOpenFGARedisClickHousePostgreSQL
  2. NAVER VIETNAM

    Jan 2024 - Feb 2026

    Fullstack Engineer · HCMC, VN

    • Notification Service. Managed backend on an 8-person team for a 10M MAU app. Owned push and in-app newsfeed on Kafka fan-in/fan-out with batching, dedup, idempotent delivery and retry/DLQ so spikes of 1-2M users did not pile up.
    • Internal RAG Assistant. Built a RAG assistant over Jira, Slack and internal Wiki with Qdrant, LangChain/LangGraph and FastAPI, run locally to keep data in-house. Saved roughly 10h/person/week on cross-tool search.
    • Naver AI Hackathon 2025. Won 3rd place at Naver's internal AI Hackathon 2025 and presented AI agents and agentic workflows to the whole company.
    • Airflow Crawlers. Replaced manual data entry with an Airflow crawling platform: 200+ DAGs across ~20 sources, ~600 pages per run, publishing to Kafka for ETL.
    • Schema, Deploy & Cost. Owned schema design for 200GB+ databases and zero-downtime schema changes across ~10 services on Kubernetes/ArgoCD. Cut AWS data-transfer cost by moving internal traffic to VPC endpoints.
    JavaSpring BootKafkaMySQLRedisKubernetesLangGraph
  3. KITE METRIC

    Sep 2020 - Dec 2023

    Fullstack Web Engineer · HCMC, VN

    • Warehouse Safety Product. Fullstack on a 5-person team: NestJS microservices and admin/customer/monitoring UIs in React + Ant Design.
    • Redshift Warehouse & Alerts. Built a 100GB+ Redshift warehouse with AWS Glue ETL over labeled warehouse-worker video, used for risk reports and real-time accident alerts.
    NestJSReactRedshiftAWS Glue
  4. VNG Corporation

    Aug 2019 - Aug 2020

    Associate Software Engineer · HCMC, VN

    • Wikidata Pipeline. Built data-collection and backend services in Java/Python (Vert.x, GraphQL) to replicate and process 200GB+ Wikidata for rule-based and ML QA.
    JavaPythonVert.xGraphQL

Technical skills

Tools I reach for in production

Languages
GoJavaPythonTypeScriptSQL
Backend
Spring BootNestJSFastAPIIrisKafkaCDCOpenFGARBACMicroservices
Data & AI
PostgreSQLMySQLClickHouseBigQueryRedisElasticsearchQdrantAirflowRAGLangGraph
Cloud & DevOps
AWSKubernetesHelmArgoCDDockerGitHub ActionsGrafana
Frontend
ReactNext.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSS

Education

Degree and certifications

  • Sep 2015 - Sep 2020

    B.Eng. in Computer Science

    Ho Chi Minh City University of Science · GPA 3.68/4

  • Jan 2025

    AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

    Amazon Web Services · Certification

Resume

Prefer a one-pager?

The full resume as a PDF, always up to date. Or just say hi - I am open to interesting backend and platform problems.